© Gunnar Tómasson 3 May 2016 I. Dante – Commedia – Alpha and Omega (Inferno Canto I og Paradiso Canto XXXIII) 101230 Alpha 15438 = Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita 15885 = mi ritrovai per una selva oscura 12588 = ché la diritta via era smarrita. Omega 13922 = Io ritornai da la […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 2 May 2016 I. Dante – Commedia – Alpha and Omega (Inferno Canto I og Paradiso Canto XXXIII) 101230 Alpha 15438 = Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita 15885 = mi ritrovai per una selva oscura 12588 = ché la diritta via era smarrita. Omega 13922 = Io ritornai da la […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 1 May 2016 I. The slaying of Snorri Sturluson‘s Son¹ (Ch. 79, Saga of Icelanders) 505516 34380 = Þeir Jón ok Gizurr mágar váru með konungi um jól sem aðrir skutilsveinar. 18210 = En síðan gengu þeir í hjúkólf á konungsgarði. 13961 = Þat var eitt kveld nær geisladegi, 26179 = er […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 30 April 2016 Background Exact measurements of the Great Pyramid were first made by W.M. Flinders Petrie, and published in 1883 by the Royal society in his book, “The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh”. The Great Pyramid was professionally surveyed by J.H. Cole, and the measurements were published in his “Determination of […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 29 April 2016 I. Let vs hast to heare it (Hamlet, Act V, Sc. ii) 346302 Fortinbras 10425 = Let vs hast to heare it, 14076 = And call the Noblest to the Audience. 20198 = For me, with sorrow, I embrace my Fortune, 18870 = I haue some Rites of memory […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 28 April 2016 I. Foule deeds will rise Though all the earth orewhelm them to mens eies. (Hamlet, Act I, Sc. ii, First folio) 91788 Hamlet 19984 = My Fathers Spirit in Armes? All is not well: 23370 = I doubt some foule play: would the Night were come; 24281 = Till […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 27 April 2016 I. Sporting With Humane Follies, Not With Crimes (Every Man in His Humour, 1616 text) 597822 4830 = Prologve. 17241 = Though neede make many Poets, and some such 16774 = As art, and nature haue not betterd much; 21897 = Yet ours, for want, hath not so […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 26 April 2016 Foreword The Dedication of the first published work of William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, was Alpha to the Shakespeare Opus whose Omega was Ben Jonson’s verse on the first page of the First Folio, facing the page with the “picture” of Shakespeare. The Cipher Values of Alpha and Omega […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 25 April 2016 Prologue Archetypal Robert Greene (S. Schoenbaum) With [Robert] Greene we cannot always separate fact from fiction in the fantasias he composed on autobiographical themes, or the legend made of him by his contemporaries. The pattern of his life – necessarily pieced together from the testimony of biased witnesses – […]
© Gunnar Tómasson 24 April 2016 Prologue The Horace Howard Furness Shakespeare Collection at the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries has been an invaluable resource over the years for my research on the Shakespeare Opus and the King James Bible. Today, I found out that the Collection […]